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1. whealie
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   I have created a second page template (imaginatively called page2) that is identical to the standard template.
   I have also managed to get a second sidebar option viewable from the widgets and changed the widgets used on sidebar2.
   But I cannot get page2 to use sidebar2.
   The site is http://www.the-zebra.com. The news page, which shows the posts, is using page2. All the other pages use the standard template.
   How do I enable page2 to use sidebar2?

2. Rhand
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Page two needs to load sidebar2. Did you add it to sidebar.php or did you create sidebar2.php and is it being loaded/called in the page2.php?

3. whealie
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Not sure how I got where I am, as I had to try so many things. I did create a sidebar2.php but it is a mirror of the original sidebar.
   When you use the widgets, however, there are now two options, sidebar1 and sidebar2 but I suspect these having nothing to do with the php files as there is no sidebar1.php
   I was also trying other bits from this docs page and created a sidebar-custom file and tried using the

   <?php if ( function_exists ('register_sidebar')) {
   register_sidebar ('custom');
   } ?>

   code but that just threw out the whole site.
   The page2 does include:
   

   <?php include ('sidebar2.php'); ?>

   but that is obviously not enough.

4. Rhand
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   page2 is a template I guess? Otherwise all sidebars should be called from the index.php. And you can use a if statement to make it appear on a certain page such as the home page.

5. whealie
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Sorry, that meant nothing to me. What code do I paste where?

6. Rhand
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Sorry. Been away for a while. A sidebar can be included on a index or page. Another way is to give a certain page a style / lay-out through a template which can be attached to it in the dashboard..

7. jennybeaumont
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   after creating your sidebar2 the next step is to call it from your template page. imagine that sidebar1.php goes in page1.php with the default code <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
   then, your sidebar2.php should be called into your page2.php with the code <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar2.php'); ?> (instead of <?php get_sidebar(); ?> )

8. whealie
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Jenny
   Thanks.
   I tried a number of different formulations but the best I coudl get was the page to begin with

   Warning: Division by zero in /home7/thezebra/public_html/wp-content/themes/r755/page2.php on line 8

   Warning: Division by zero in /home7/thezebra/public_html/wp-content/themes/r755/page2.php on line 8

   Warning: include(php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home7/thezebra/public_html/wp-content/themes/r755/page2.php on line 8

   Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home7/thezebra/public_html/wp-content/themes/r755/page2.php on line 8

   Any thoughts on where I went wrong and what the code should have been?

9. starschreck
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Any luck on this one?

   I found some good information here in the Docs section, some of which has already been posted here.

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_Your_Sidebar

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